Performance Tester || San Antonio, TX – (Onsite) || Contract

Role: Performance Tester

Location: San Antonio, TX – (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Rate: $45-48/hr. on C2C

Job Description

•            Experience developing performance engineering standards, strategies, and best practices.

•            Expertise designing and executing load, stress, endurance, scalability, and benchmark testing for distributed applications.

•            Advanced root cause analysis skills utilizing JVM analysis, thread dumps, heap dumps, database diagnostics, infrastructure monitoring, and observability tools to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

•            Strong knowledge of Java, APIs, microservices, Message Queues, containerized applications, and cloud platforms.

•            Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and implementing shift-left performance testing.

•            Strong expertise performance testing and tuning distributed applications deployed on OpenShift/Kubernetes or similar platforms.

•            Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Broadcom DX, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, or similar solutions.

•            Experience with performance testing tools such as StresStimulus, JMeter, Loadrunner, Gatling, or k6.

•            Experience utilizing AI-assisted tools such as Microsoft Copilot to analyze logs, identify bottlenecks, and accelerate troubleshooting.

•            Proven ability to lead complex performance investigations and influence application, infrastructure, and architectural decisions.